Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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HYBRID PERCEPI UAL AUDIO CODING
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to coding of time varying signals, such as
audio signals representing voice or music info..l~ation.
S Back~round of the ~vention
In recent years several advanced bit rate red~lction algc.lithms for high
quality digital audio have been proposed (see e.g., Scl~l~de~, E.F. & Voessing, W.:
"High quality digital audio enco~ing with 3.0 bits/sample using adaptive ~ fo
coding," 80th. AES-convention Monll~;au~ 1986, P~lint 2321 (B2); Theile, G. &
10 Link, M. & Stoll, G.: "Low bit rate coding of high quality audio signals," 82nd AES
convention, ~ on-lon 1987, P~lint 2432 (C-l); B~andenburg, K.: "OCF - A new
coding algo~ l for high quality sound signals," in Proc. of the 1987 Int. Conf. on
Acoust., Speech and Signal Proc. ICASSP 1987, pp. 141-144; and Johnston, J.D.:
"Tl~lsfollll Coding of Audio Signals Using Pe.c~tual Noise Criter~ IEEE Journal
15 on Selected Areas in C~ atior~s, Vol. 6 (1988), pp. 314-323). Nearly
Lla,~ ent quality can be achieved at bit rates down to 64 kbit/sec. using frequency
domain approaches (see e.g., Br~n~enburg, K. ~ Seitzer, D.: "OCF: Coding High
Quality Audio with Data Rates of 64 kbit/sec," 85th AES convention, Los Angeles
1988; Johnct~n, J.D.: "P~ eplual Transform Coding of Wideb~n~l Stereo signals,"
20 pp. 1993-1996, ICASSP 1989; and Theile, G. & Stoll, G. & Link, M.: "Low bit-rate
coding of high quality audio signal. An introduction to the MASCAM system,"
EBU Review- Teçhni~ ~l, No. 230 (August 1988), pp. 71-94).
FIG. 1 shows the basic block diagram co........ ol- to all ~lceplual
frequency domain coders.
25 A filterband 101 is used to decolllpose the input signal into subs~mrled spectral
co...~ e~ . The subsampled spectral CO~ Ol~,lb are then used to calculate an
c~ e of the actual (time depen~ent)) m~Cl~ing threshold in block 102 using rulesknown from psychoacou~ics (see e.g., Zwicker, E.: "Psycho~hlctik" (in German),
Berlin Heidelberg New York 1982; ~ellm~n~ R. P.: "As~l..ll..,~.~ of m~ ing
30 ~l~een noise and tone, Pe.c~,plion and Pyschophysics," Vol. 11, pp. 241-246, 1972;
and Scharf, B: Chapter 5 of Foun~fltions f Modern Auditory Theory, New York,
Academic Press, 1970). The spectral con~onellls are then qu~nti7e~ and coded in
block 103 with the aim of keeping the noise, which is introduced by q~l~nti7ing,below the m~Clfing threshold. Depending on the ~lgo~ "" this step is done in very
35 dirr~ t ways, from simple block comp~n-ling to analysis by synthesis systems
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using additional noiseless compression.
Finally, a multiplexer 104 is used to assemble the bi~ ;dl.l, which typically
consists of the ~ d and coded spectral coefficients and some side information, e.g.
bit allocation information.
There are two filterbank designs commonly used in the above arrangement. One
type is the so-called tree-structured filterbank (see e.g. QMF Filterbank; described in
Jayant, N.S. & Noll, P.: Di~ital Codin~ of Waveforms: Principles and Applications to
Speech and Video~ Englewood Cliffs 1984) which are designed with the filter bandwidth
of the individual bands set according to the critical bands as known from psychoacoustics.
Also known are those filter banks used in transform coders (see e.g., Jayant, N.S. & Noll,
P.: above, and Zelinski, R. & Noll, P., "Adaptive Transform Coding of Speech Signals,"
IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ASSP-25 (1977), pp. 299-309)
which use a windowed transform to implement a filter bank with equal bandwidth filters
with low computational complexity. Transform coders typically calculate 128 to 1024
spectral components, which also can be grouped by critical bands.
The basic problem of the design of an analysis/synthesis system for use in high
quality digital audio coding is the trade-off between time domain and frequency domain
behavior: If more spectral components are used, the m~cking functions can be estimated
with better accuracy. In addition, a higher decorrelation of the spectral components, and
therefore a higher coding gain, can be achieved. On the other hand, a higher spectral
resolution necessitates less time resolution, which leads to problems with preechoes (see
e.g., Vaupelt, Th.: "Ein Kompander zur Unterdrueckung von hoerbaren Stoerungen bei
dynamischen Signalpassangen fuer ein Transformationscodierungsverfahren fuer qualitative
hochwertige Audiosignale (MSC)", (in German), ITG Fachbericht 106, pp. 209-216; and
Brandenburg, K.: "High quality sound coding at 2.5 bit/sample," 84th AES Convention,
Paris 1988, Preprint 2582) and longer processing delay.
Summary of the Invention
The present invention provides structure and methods which seek to overcome the
limitations of the prior art through a closer match to the processing of audio signals by the
human ear. More specifically, the present invention models the ear as a filterbank, but
with differing time and frequency resolution at dirrerell~ frequencies. Thus the present
invention provides an analysis framework that achieves a better fit to the human ear.
More specifically, the invention consists of a method of processing an ordered
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time sequence of audio signals partitioned into a set of ordered blocks, each of the blocks
having a discrete frequency spectrum including a first set of frequency coefficients, the
method co~ fisillg, for each of the blocks, the steps of: filtering the first set of frequency
coefficients into a plurality of frequency bands with a bank of filters of a first type, each
S of the frequency bands represçntin~ a contiguous range of frequencies; filtering at least one
of the frequency bands into a plurality of frequency groups with at least one filter of a
second type, each of the frequency groups including at least one frequency coefficient,
wherein said filtering steps substantially approximate human auditory response;
determining a noise m~king threshold for the frequency coefficients in each frequency
10 group, the noise m~kinE threshold indicating the amount of qu~nti7~tion noise that can be
introduced into a frequency group without effecting its tone-like quality; and qu~nti7in~ at
least one frequency coefficient in at least one of the frequency groups, the qu~nti7in~
based upon the corresponding noise m~C~ing threshold.
The invention also provides a method of processing an ordered time sequence of
15 audio signals partitioned into a set of ordered blocks, each of the blocks having a discrete
frequency spectrum including a first set of frequency coefficients, the method comprising,
for each of the blocks, the steps of: filtering the first set of frequency coefficients into a
plurality of frequency groups, each of the frequency groups being produced by filtering
with at least two filters of different types, each of the frequency groups including at least
20 one frequency coefficient, wherein said filtering step subst~nti~lly approximates human
auditory response; determining a noise m~king threshold for the frequency coefficients in
each frequency group, the noise m~king threshold indicating the amount of qu~nti7~tion
noise that can be introduced into a frequency group without effecting its tone-like quality;
and qll~nti7ing at least one frequency coefficient in at least one of the frequency groups,
25 the qu~nti7ing based upon the corresponding noise m~cking threshold.
The invention also provides a storage medium manufactured in accordance with a
process comprising the steps of: processing an ordered time sequence of audio signals
partitioned into a set of ordered blocks, each of the blocks having a discrete frequency
spectrum including a first set of frequency coefficients; and for each of the blocks:
30 filtering the first set of frequency coefficients into a plurality of frequency bands with a
bank of filters of a first type, each of the frequency bands representing a contiguous range
of frequencies; filtering at least one of the frequency bands into a plurality of frequency
groups with at least one filter of a second type, each of the frequency groups including at
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least one frequency coefficient, wherein said filtering steps substantially approximate
human auditory response; determining a noise m~cking threshold for the frequencycoefficients in each frequency group, the noise m~eking threshold indicating the amount of
5 qll~nti7~tion noise that can be introduced into a frequency group without effecting its tone-
like quality; qu~nti7ing at least one frequency coefficient in at least one of the frequency
groups resulting in a set of qu~nti7Pcl frequency coefficients, the qu~nti7ing based upon the
corresponding noise m~ing threshold; applying a recording signal to the storage medium,
the recording signal representing the set of qu~nti7~d frequency coefficients; and recording
10 the lecordillg signal onto the storage medium.
Brief D~ s~ n of the Dr~
FIG. 1 shows a general block diagram of a perceptual coder.
FIG. 2 shows a basic analysis system used in the hybrid coder of the present
invention in the context of a system of the type shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a time/frequency breakdown of the hybrid analysis structure of
FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 shows a short time spectrum of a test signal.
FIG. 5 shows a block diagram of the iteration loops of a typical implementation
of the present invention.
Detailed Description
THE NEW ANALYSIS/SYNTHESIS FILTERBANK
The hybrid coder in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present
invention uses a hybrid QMF/Transform filterbank. FIG. 2 shows the basic
analysis/synthesis system. The time domain values are first filtered by a conventional
QMF-tree filterbank 201-203. This filterbank is used to get 4 channels with 3 to 12 kHz
bandwidth (frequency resolution) and, accordingly, 2 to 8 sample time resolution. The
QMF filterbank was chosen only because optimized filters were readily available that
satisfied our design goals. It provides convenience to use 80-tap QMF filters derived from
Johnston, J.D., " A Filter Family Designed For Use in Quadrature Mirror Filter Banks, "
ICASSP 1980, pp. 291-294). This 80-tap filter is clearly an overdesign; lower
colll~ aLional complexity will clearly suffice.
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It is well known that clqcsi( ql QMF-tree filterbanks do not yield "perfect
econi,l,. ction" of the input signal. However, 80 tap filter illustratively used yields
near perfect l~,COI Sll uclion of the analysis/synthesis filter bank in the sense that the
sum of the pass band ripple is below 16 bit resolution. Thus, l~unding leads to
5 perfect reconstruction.
The output signals of the QMF-tree are filtered again, this time using a
windowed transform to get a compu~lional effective filter bank 210-213 with manyçhqnnel~ The window used is a sine window, using 50 % overlap of the analysis
blocks. Two diff~,lGnt transforms have been used for this pu~l~ose. The first
10 transform that may be used is a ~ si~ql DFT, which cql~.llqte~s 65 or 129 (lowest
fi~uencies) complex lines. In this approach the analysis- ~ylllhe;,is filterbank is not
critic~lly sampled. On the other hand, prediction of the con~plex frequency lines can
be easily used to reduce the data rate further. ~lternqtivdy~ a .~uy3;r~A DCT
(MDCT) as used in Brandenburg, K.: "Ein Beitrag zu den Verfahren und der
15 Qualitaetsbeurteilung fuer hoc~ ige Musikcodierung," (in Gemman), Ph.D. thesis,
Univ~,lsi~el Erlangen-Nuemberg 1989 and described first in Princen, J. & Johnson,
A., Bradley, A.: "Subband / Transform Coding Using Filter Bank Designs Based on
Time Domain Aliasing Cqncellqtion", in Proc. of the 1987 Int. conf. on Acousdcs, Speech and Signal l~ocessil-g ICASSP 87, pp. 2161-2164 may be used. This
20 technique c~ tes 64 or 128 frequency values per subband and is cridcally
s~ lrA Using this MDCT app~ h only half the ~mples have to be q~-~nti7yl
and en~oded as com~d.~l to the DFT sol~tic.n
The co.~-hil~ filterbank has a frequency resolution of 23.4 Hz at low
frequencies and 187.5 Hz at high Ll~u~,ncies, with a cc,llc;s~lu1;ng dirr~,~nce in
25 dme resolution While the time resolution is illustradvdy qunnti7ed to powers of 2,
advances in the analysis/synthesis method will provide more range in time/frequency
resolution as well as less quAnli7~l;on. Depe~tlinp on the frequency band, the
characteri~ics of the filter bank are similar to an MDCT filterbank of block length
1024 at low frequencies and 128 at high freque-n~ies Thus, the frequency resolution
30 at low frequencies is sufficient for the pelc~lual model, and the dme resoludon at
high Ll~uellcies is short enough for pre-echo control without addidonal algolil}.,llic
accommod~tion. Table 1 shows dme and frequency reso!l-tion values for the
co,llbined filter bank used in the hybrid coder.
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Lower bound Upper bound Frequency Time Time
in Frequency in Frequency Resolutiorl Resolution Resolution
Hz Hz Hz cqmrles mS
0.0 3000. 23.4 1024 21.3
3000. 6000. 46.8 512 10.7
6000. 12000. 93.6 256 5.3
12000 24000 187.2 128 2.7
Table 1: Time and Ll~uellcy resol~ltion of the analysis/synthesis
filterbank
The mq~l~in~ threshold is estimqt~d using the ~I~U~ilU e of the output
signal of the filterbank. The compu~lion is done for "superblocks" conlqining eight
"time slices" CC~ spollding to the number of high-frequency ~l~u~srolms in the low-
frequency l.ansrollll interval. The signal energy in the lower frequency band is~lietrib~lted equally bel~Cell the 8 time slices, and that of the middle frequencies
15 distributed accor~ing to their transform rate. The "~u~lblock" qllocqtion is shown
in FIG. 3.
Then the threshold is calculated for each of the 8 time slices using
improved meth~l~ similar to those in Johnston, J.D.: "T~ .rollll Coding of AudioSignals Using Pelceplual Noise Critp~riq-~ll EEE Journal on Sele~;t~l Areas in
20 C~ ation~ Vol. 6 (1988), pp. 314-323. The threshold values for l-an~rolllls
spread across more than 1 time slice are then added up, to give the e~l;...AIe of the
mqC~ing threshold with the ap~lo~liate time resol~ltio~ for the critical bands
contq-ined in each ll~rlsrullll block. Critical band boundalies are aligned with the
subband bolln-lD~i~s, resultinp in 25 critical bands.
The actual q~l~nti7er and coder must add no more noise than in-1icate~1
by the e~ q~ing threshold in order to code the signal transpare.llly,
acc~,l.ling to the threshold model.
CALCULATION OF TONALITY
Dirrelent values for the m~ ing threshold for na~w band signals have
30 been l~ ed in lilc.~ , for tone m~Clfing noise and noise as a masker. See e g., the
~ellm~n and Scharf references, above. In the Johnston l~Ç~l~nce, above, the spectral
flatness measure was used to c~lclll~te a global "tonality" of the short time spectrum
of the signal. This tonality lllea~ was then used to interpolate ~I~.~el the
m~ing threshold formulas from Hellman and Scharf. A l~lublcm has been found
35 with the notion of a global tonality:
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Some signals, eSpeciq-lly speech signals or an "a capella" singa (see
FIG. 4), show a s~ ~ with "tonal" parts (low h~lllonics of the pitch frequencies)
and "noisy" parts of conc;~erable energy at high rl~uen~ies~ The result of the
mea~ul~ nt of a global spectral flatness .l~e~u~ will not show that parts of theS signal are very tonal (i.e., cohl,~.lt &om ~ srOIl.. block to transform block).
Further, i.e., even if the tonality is e~ c~ ly for the sensitive (tonal) parts
of such a signal, the formula previously used will lead to a very conservative
mqc~ing threshold at high frequencies, thereby l~uLing an excessive bit rate.
E~ e~ with changed esl;...A~ed msCl~ing thresholds and results of
10 the dirr~ t approach to the ci,l;...AI;on of the mqCl~ing threshold taken in
Brandenburg, K.:"Ein Beitragzu denVerfahren undderQuq-litqetsbeurteilung
fuer hochwertige Musilc~-o 1;. . ,~ng," (in German), Ph.D. thesis, Uni~,~.sitaelFrlqn~n-Nuernberg 1989, caused a search for a new tonality measure.
As used in one aspect of the present invention to e~l;n~A~e the amount of
15 mq-C1~ing by a signal tonality, is m~eled not as a global value, but as a characteristic
local to a critical band or even a single spectral line. In the context of the illustrative
hybrid coder, this local tonality is esl;...~ by a coh.,.~,. ce ll.easu.~e:
For each spectral co~onent (= subband or transform coefficient) a
coh~,- ce measure is CAl~lllAte~ This is done using a simple predicdon, cAlc~ te~
20 in polar coordinates in the complex plane. Seve~al predictors were tested, and the
one descr~ below was selecled on the basis of pelru~n~nce
Let r(t,f) be the radius ûf the spectral value at dme t and frequency f and
~(t,f) the phase value at t and f.
The predicted value of r and ~ at dme t are calculated as:
25 r(t,f)=r(t-1,f)+(r(t-l,f)-r(t-2,f))
and ~(t,f)=~p(t-l,f)+~(t-l,f)~(t-2,f)
The FuclideAn ~ tAnce ~l.. een the actual and predicted values is used to get the
new tonality metric, c(t,f). Then,
c(t f)= dist((r(t,f),~(t,f)), (r(t,f),~(t,f)))
(r(t, f)+abs(p(t, f)))
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If the pre~ tion turns out to be very good, c(t,f) will have values near
zero. On the other hand, for very unpredictable (noisy) signals c(t,f) will have values
of up to 1 with a mean of 0.5. This "inverse tonality" or "measure of chaos" is
converted to a tonality metric by a simple log-linear operation.
5 t= oclnc+,B
The new tonality metric is used to estimRte the m~ ing threshold at each spectral
cc,..-~nent in the same way as described in the Johnston paper cited above for the
old tonality metric. The program in Listing 1 ill~ t~,s the pl~cessing used to form
c(t,f) in the context of a 512 sample input sequence. The program of Listing 1 is
10 written in the well-known FORTRAN pro~ n-ing lang.lage ~esr~r~ e.g., in
Fx/FORTRAN E~J~t~lm~,l'S Handbook, Alliant Cc..~lput~. Systems Corp., 1988.
The program is intended for use on general ~ ose co~n~ute~s ...~ Pte~ by AlliantCo,ll~ul~. Systems Corp., but may be readily adapted for use on other general
pu~ose or special pulyOSe pnxessol ..
In a typical vasion of the hybrid coder in acc~lu ce with the present
te~Rçhin~, the quRnti7Rtion and coding scheme of the OCF (Oydlllulll Coding in the
Frequency domain), system described in Brandenburg, K. & Seitzer, D.: "OCF:
Coding high Quality Audio with Data Rates of 64 kbitlsec," 85th AES convention,
Los Angeles 1988, has been used. In that analysis-by-..~ nll.esis scheme the spectral
20 collll~on~rl~. are first qllRnti7ed using a nonunifollll quRnti7Pr. In the inner iteration
loop (rate loop) the count of bits needed to code the qu~-lti7r~d values using an
.,n~ code is colllpal~id to the nulll~r of available bits. Depending on the ratio of
actual over available bits the quRnti7Rtion step si_e is a~ju..~d, leading to a dirr~.eilt
number of bits needed to code the block of qURnti7~ values. The outer iteration
25 loop (distortion control loop) colllpa~,s actual q~lRnti7~tion noise energy for each
critical band with the e~li...Rlçd mRc'~ing threshold. If the actual noise ç~ceeds the
m~C1~ing threshold in some critical band, the scale of the spectral colllpolle,lls in this
cridcal band is adjusted to yield a lower q~lRnti7~R~tion noise. FIG. 5 shows a block
diagram of the iteradon loops used for qu~nti7~Rtion and coding. The Rlgonthm is30 described in more detail in the papers by Johncton and Bl~ldellburg and Seitzer, as
well as the Brandenburg thesis, all cited above. FIG. S shows the Illanllel in which a
coder such as the OCF system uses the psychoacoustic threshold and related
infolllladon described above to produce the actual bi~ ealll to be tr~nc-mitsed or
stored. Thus, input inrc.lmalion on input 500 is RC-sumP~ to have been applupliately
35 buLr~l, partitioned into convenient blocks and tran~.Ç ~wllled in the manner described
above. The ap~ç~liate variable resolution spectral infollllalion is also provided to
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block 504 which provides the psychoacousdc evaluation for weighdng frequency
signals in block 501 prior to 4~u~nt;~ n in block 502. The actual entropy coding is
represented by block 503 in FIG. 5. Thus the infc.lmdtion describing the spectral
infollllation of the input signals is provided on output-515. Side hlfollllation5 describing the cycle acousdc evaluation and 4uA~-L;~;ng processes is then supplied on
outputs 520 and 525. All outputs are conveniently muldplexed into a single bit
stream for tr~n~mi~ion or storage.
The Pe~e~lual Entropy (see e.g., Johnston, James D., "Estimation of
Pelcep~ual Entropy Using Noise Masking Criteri~," ICASSP '88, pp. 2524-2527) is
10 an e~;".~tç of the i.~rOl n~hl;on content of a piece of music reladve to the capabilities
of the human auditory system. It gives an e~l;...~te of the --;ni-------- bit rate necessary
for total transparent coding of a piece of music using a given analysis/synthesis
scheme. As inl~u~luced in this last-cited paper by Johnston, the PE is calculated from
the number of qu~nti7~tion levels n.~ces~.y- to code a piece of music at the masking
15 threshold.
Using the analysis/synthesis frame work of the hybrid coder, e~l;...~tes
of the PE have been calculated for ~lirÇ..ent pieces of music. Table 2 lists some of
the results and COIIl~S them to the PE measured using other analysis/synthesis
~y~,ms. It can be seen that the hybrid coder pelr~lms well coll,~ d to the older20 results.
music Old PE New PE
(type) (bits/sample) (bits/sample)
organ .24 .48
sll7~nne vega .69 .54
c~ ,t~ .73 .52
Table 2: Results of PE Illea~un ~nl~
Using the qll~nt-i7~tion/coding scheme of OCF as ~lescribecl above,
typical results for the hybrid coder have been gathered. The bit rate used was 64
kbit/sec. per ch~nnel and the basic block length was 1024 time domain samples. The
30 MDCT was used to co.--p~e the output of the combined filter bank from the QMFtree. The sampling rate of the test pieces was 48 kHz. The signals were coded with a
bandwidth of up to 20 kHz. Out of the 1362 bits available for each block at 64 kb/s,
226 bits were used to code side inrolm&lion.
A second g_nclation ~;~lual coder using enh~nred time/frequency
35 resolution has been described. A tonality metric, c~lcul~ted on a frequency by
frequency basis, is combined with the calculation of the coder's noise threshold at
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each frequency in order to provide a greatly improved threshold value. The present
invention thus provides p~lro~ n~e that CO~ S favorably with known coding of
high quality digital audio at low bit rates.
A decoder in accor~ance with the above t~a~hing can be constructed by
S using the a~,~roach described above. Reca~Jce of the enh~ncecl time/frequency
resolution provided by the present invention, cc.~ onding enh~nce~l processing is
accomplished at a ~ecoder.
~ ,.rO. . .-~ ;on used at a receiver or ~ecoder to f~COllSll .Ict the original
input signal at the coder is, of course, that provided as outputs from the system
10 represented by FIG. 5. In particular, the spectral information and side infolllla~ion,
after dem~lltirlexing if required, is used to reconstruct the origin~l input signal. With
the i~lfullllation describing the cycle acoustic evaluation and qu~nti7ing process,
including global gain, qu~nti7~r step size, scaling factors, bit allocations and the like,
all infollllation necess~ to lecolls~ ct the sarnpled time domain signal from its
15 frequency colll~onel ts is present at the receiver/decoder. Il~fc,lll~tion about the
non-u~lifollll frequency and time resolution (both as a function of frequency) will
also be used at the ~leco~l~r. Well known digital to analog conversion will also be
provided when it is l~uil~d to create equivalent analog signals for reproduction of
the origin~l analog signal with high fidelity, e.g., on a londspe~k~r.
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LISTING 1
c First startup routine
subroutine strt()
c sets up threshold general;on tables, ithr and bval
real freq(0:25)/0.,100.,200.,300.,400.,510.,630.,770.,
1 920.,1080.,1270.,1480.,1720.,2000.,2320.,2700.,
1 3150.,3700.,4400.,5300.,6400.,7700.,9500.,12000.,15500.,
1 25000./
coll~ on/thresh~lthr(26),bval(257),rnorm(257)
co,~ on/absthr/abslow(257)
co.. ~n/sigs/ifirst
c ithr(i) is bottom of crital band i. bval is bark index
c of each line
write(*,*) 'what spl will +-32000 be -> '
read(*,*) abslev
abslev=abslev-96.
abslow=5224245.*5224245./exp(9.6*alog(10.))
ifirst=0
write(*,*) 'what is the sampling rate'
read(*,*) rzotz
rl,yq~ ~2.
c nyquest frequency of interest.
ithr(l)=2.
i=2
ithr(i)=freq(i-1)/fnyq*256.+2.
i=hl
if (freq(i-l) .lt. fnyq) goto 10
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c sets ithr to bottom of cb
ithr(i:26)=257
c now, set up the critical band indexing array
bval(1)=0
5 c first, figure out frequency, then
do i=2,257,1
fre=(i-1)/256.*fnyq
c write(*,*) i,fre
c fre is now the frequency of the line. convert
10 c it to critical band number
do j=0,25,1
if ( fre .gt. freq(j) ) k=j
end do
c so now, k = last CB lower than fre
ly~l-rl~-freq(k)
range=freq(k+1)-freq(k)
bval(i)=k+rpart/range
end do
rnorm=1
do i=2,257,1
tmp=0
do j=2,257,1
~+sprdngf(bval(j),bval(i))
end do
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rnorm(i)=tmp
end do
lllo~ l./rnorm
c do i=1,257,1
5 c write(*,$)i, bval(i), lO.*aloglO(rnorm(i))
c end do
call openas(O,'/usr/JJ/nsrc/thr~y/freqlist',O)
do i=2,257,1
read(O,*) ii,db
if ( ii .ne. i ) then
write(*,*) 'freqlist is bad.'
stop
end if
db=exp((db-abslev)/lO.*alog(10.)3
15 c write(*,*) i,db
abslow(i)=abslow(i)*db
end do
abslow(l)=l.
write(*,*) 'lowest level is ', sqrt(abslow(45))
return
end
c Threshold calculation program
subroutine thrgen(rt,phi,thr)
real r(257),phi(257)
real rt(257)
real thr(257)
co~ ~n/blnk/ or(257),ophi(257),dr(257),dphi(257)
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co... Il/blkl/othr(257)
real alpha(257),tr(257),tphi(257)
real beta(257),bcalc(257)
co~ on/absthr/abslow(257)
S cc.lll,llon/thresh/ithr(26),bval(257),rnorm(257)
collllll~ll/sigs/ifirst
r-~c(rt,.0005)
bcalc=l.
if (ifirst.eq. 0) then
or=0.
othr=le20
ophi=0
dr=0
dphi=0
if irst=l
end if
c this ~ublvulil e figures out the new threshold values
c using line-by-line lllcasww~nt.
tr-or+dr
l~hi-ophi+dphi
dr=r-or
dphi-phi-ophi
or=r
ophi=phi
alpha~ ((r*cos(phi)-tr*cos(tphi))
1 *(r*cos(phi)-tr*cos(tphi))
2 +(r*sin(phi)-tr*sin(tphi))
21~377~
- 14-
3 *(r*sin(phi)-tr*sin(tphi)))
4/(r+abs(tr) +1.)
beta=alpha
c now, beta is the unweighted tonality factor
alpha~
c now, the energy is in each
c line. Mustspread.
c write(*,*) 'before spreading'
thr=0.
bcalc=0.
cvd$1 cncall
do i=2,257,1
cvd$1 cncall
do j=2,257,1
glor~h-i~ gf(bval(j),bval(i))
thr(i)=alpha(j)*glorch+thr(i)
bcalc(i)=alphaa)*glorch*beta(j)+bcalc(i)
c thr is the spread energy, bcalc is the weighted chaos
end do
20 c if(thr(i) .eq. 0) then
c write(*,*) 'zero threshold,'
c stop
c end if
bcalc(i)--bcalc(i)/thr(i)
if (bcalc(i) .gt. .5) bcalc(i)=l.-bcalc(i)
c that norm~li7es bcalc to 0-.5
end do
c write(*,*) 'after spreading'
bcalc=max(bcalc, .05)
2~3778~
bcalc=min(bcalc,.5)
c bcalc is now the chaos metric, convert to the
c tonalit,v metric
bcalc=-.43*alog(bcalc)-.299
5 c now c~lc~ te DB
bcalc=max(24.5,(15.5+bval))*bcalc+5.5*(1.-bcalc)
bcalc=exp( (-bcalc/10.) * alog (10.) )
c now, bcalc is actual tonalit,v factor, for power
c space.
~ ",.l,n~bcalc
c threshold is tonality factor times energy (with norrn~li7~til)n)
(thr,abslow)
alpha-thl
"l,n(thr,othr*2.)
othr-alpha
c write(*,*) 'leaving thrgen'
return
end
c And, the spreading funcdon
funcdon sprdngf(j,i)
real i,j
real sprdngf
c this calculates the value of the spreading funcdon for
c the i'th bark, with the center being the j'th
25 c bark
templ=ij
temp2=15.811389 +7.5*(templ+.474)
temp2=temp2- 17.5*sqrt(1.+ (templ+.474)*(templ+.474) )
if ( temp2 .le. -100. ) then
temp3=0.
else
~ 203~7~
- 16-
temp2=temp2/lO.*alog(10.)
temp3 =exp(temp2)
end if
sprdn~,Ç-te~ 3
S return
end
Tablel 2037780
Absolute Thr~h~ld Fil~
("freqlist" for start-up routine)
1 56 3. 111 16. 166 16. 221 so.
2 27. 57 4. 112 17. 167 16. 222 so.
3 18. s8 4. 113 17. 168 16. 223 so.
4 16. 59 5. 114 17. 169 16. 224 50.
10. 60 5. 115 17. 170 16. 225 50.
6 9. 61 5. 116 18. 171 17. 226 50.
7 8. 62 6. 117 18. 172 17. 227 50.
8 8. 63 6. 118 18. 173 17. 228 50.
9 8. 64 6. 119 18. 174 17. 229 so.
0 8. 65 6. 120 18. 175 17. 230 so.
8. 66 7. 121 18. 176 17. 231 so.
2 7. 67 7. 122 18. 177 18. 232 so.
3 7. 68 7. 123 18. 178 18. 233 so.
4 7. 69 8. 124 17. 179 18. 234 60.
7. 70 9. 125 17. 180 18. 235 60.
6 7. 71 10. 126 16. 181 18. 236 60.
7 7. 72 10. 127 16. 182 19. 237 60.
8 7. 73 10. 128 16. 183 19. 238 60.
19 7. 74 10. 129 16. 184 19. 239 60.
7. 75 10. 130 15. 185 19. 240 60.
21 7. 76 10. 131 15. 1a6 19. 241 60.
22 7. 77 10. 132 15. 187 20. 242 60.
23 7. 78 10. 133 15. 188 21. 243 60.
24 7. 79 10. 134 14. 189 22. 244 60.
6. 80 10. 135 14. 190 23. 245 60.
26 s. 81 11. 136 13. 191 24. 246 60.
27 5. 82 11. 137 12. 192 25. 247 60.
28 5. 83 11. 138 12. 193 26. 248 60.
29 5. 84 11. 139 12. 194 27. 249 60.
5. 85 11. 140 12. 195 28. 250 60.
31 4. 86 12. 141 12. 196 29. 251 60.
32 4. 87 12. 142 12. 197 30. 252 60.
33 4. 88 12. 143 12. 198 31. 253 60.
34 4. 89 12. 144 13. 199 32. 254 60.
4. 90 12. 145 13. 200 33. 255 60.
36 3. 91 12. 146 14. 201 34. 2s6 60.
37 3. 92 13. 147 14. 202 35. 257 60.
38 3. 93 13. 148 14. 203 36.
39 3. 94 13. 149 14. 204 37.
2. 95 13. 150 14. 205 38.
41 2. 96 13. 151 14. 206 39.
42 1. 97 13. 152 14. 207 40.
43 1. 98 14. 153 14. 208 41.
44 1. 99 14. 154 14. 209 42.
1. 100 14. 155 14. 210 43.
46 0. 101 14. 156 15. 211 44.
47 0. 102 15. 157 15. 212 45.
48 0. 103 15. 158 15. 213 46.
49 0. 104 15. 159 15. 214 47.
0. 105 15. 160 15. 215 48.
51 o. 106 15. 161 15. 216 49.
s2 2. 107 16. 162 15. 217 50.
s3 2. 108 16. 163 15. 218 so.
54 2. 109 16. 164 15. 219 50.
ss 3. 110 16. 165 15. 220 so.
